Despite the fact that, in 1929, women weren't permitted to become members of the Society, let alone even speak in a deabte, the Society passed the motion "That in the view of the present lamentable position of women in the University this House resolves that: Women should be admitted to full University rights, the entrance test should not be one of pure scholarship, and the existing fatuous codes of rules at Newnham and Girton should undergo a thorough revision."